Herpetology reptile quiz

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five-lined skink- moist, but not wet, wooded or partially wooded areas with significant cover and abundant basking sites. insectivorous, feeding on spiders, millipedes, crickets, termites, grasshoppers

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six-lined racerunner - variety of habitats such as savannas, prairies, fields/ fire-tolerant woodlands, especially those that burn annually. opportunistic insectivores that eat most arthropods and some mollusks, an adaptive tongue that senses prey chemicals.

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Kirtland’s snake - open damp areas like marsh edges. mainly eat earthworms and slugs

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Copperbelly water snake - shallow wetlands like marshes and swamps. Their main diet is frogs and tadpoles

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northern water snake - lakes, streams, ponds, and wetlands. They mainly eat fish and amphibians

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queen snake - watersheds with rocky bottoms and clear, running streams. It mainly eats newly-molted crayfish.

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brown snake - moist environments near swamps and marshes. eats slugs, earthworms, and snails.

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northern red-bellied snake - moist woodlands that border a forest and wetland. Slugs and earthworms are their primary diet.

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eastern garter snake - diverse habitats, shrubby fields, grasslands, and abandoned farmlands. They feed on tadpoles, frogs, toads, earthworms, salamanders, minnows, mice, worms, and other small snakes.

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butlers garter snake - grassy, moist, open canopy areas like wet prairies and grasslands. Its main diet consists of earthworms. But it also eats salamanders, leeches, and frogs.

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northern ribbon snake - ribbon snakes live in wetlands or near a stream, ponds, or lakes. They eat frogs, fish, and salamanders

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northern ring-necked snake - prefers moist wooded areas. It eats earthworms, salamanders, insects, slugs, frogs, etc.

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eastern hognosed snake - These snakes tend to prefer sandy pine forests, old fields, and forest edges. They eat toads and sometimes frogs.

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blue racer - They prefer semi-open, old field shoreline, savanna, and edge habitats. They primarily eat songbirds, rodents, and other snakes.

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eastern rat snake - they live in hardwood forests, farmlands, forested wetlands, and fields. Their diet is made up of lizards, rodents, frogs, and birds and their eggs.

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eastern fox snake - they live in wetlands such as marshes and adjacent meadows and fields. they eat various birds and small mammals.

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Great Basin gopher snake - It inhabits woodlands, grasslands, deserts, and agricultural lands. Feeds on various animals, including lizards, small mammals, birds, and their eggs. 

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smooth green snake - It lives in open woods, meadows, marshes, and along stream edges. It mainly eats spiders, insects, and other invertebrate. 

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eastern massasauga rattlesnake - found in wetland habitats such as marshes, swamps, and floodplains. They feed on small vertebrates such as mammals, birds, and frogs.

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common snapping turtle - These turtles inhabit rivers, lakes, marshes, shallow ponds, or streams. They consume both plant and animal matter and are important aquatic scavengers, they are omnivores

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painted turtle - they live in shallow waters with slow-moving currents, such as creeks, marshes, and ponds. Their diet includes aquatic insects, fish, crustaceans, aquatic vegetation, and algae.

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spotted turtle - Preferred habitat includes shallow and slow-moving waters with soft muddy soil, sedge tussocks, water lilies, sphagnum moss, and cattails. They eat aquatic vegetation, green algae, aquatic insect larvae, tadpoles, spiders, etc.

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blandings turtle - wetland habitats with slow-moving waters. Their diet consists of crustaceans, tadpoles, small fish, etc.

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wood turtle - occur in open areas including forests, fields, bogs, wet meadows, and beaver ponds. They eat beetles, millipedes, fungi, mosses, insects, etc.

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Northern map turtle - They prefer large bodies of water and areas with fallen trees and other debris for basking. They feed on mollusks, their primary prey, as well as insects and crayfish.

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eastern box turtle - prefer deciduous or mixed forested regions, with a moderately moist forest floor. They eat earthworms, snails,grasses, fallen fruit, berries, etc. 

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red-eared slider - they prefer still, warm water, such as ponds, lakes, swamps, creeks, streams, or slow-flowing rivers. feed on fish, crayfish, aquatic insects, and aquatic plants.

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eastern musk turtle - wetland habitats and littoral zones, particularly shallow watercourses with a slow current and muddy bottom. They eat crayfish, freshwater clams, snails, aquatic larvae, etc. 

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eastern spiny softshell - bodies of water with soft, sandy, or muddy bottoms. They are carnivorous eating crayfish, fish, tadpoles, worms, crickets, etc.

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eastern milk snake - prefers woodlands, fields, rocky areas, and suburban environments. feeds on small mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians